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Denmark prolongs border controls for a month

Denmark has told the European Commission that it intends to continue checks at its borders until at least 3 April, a commission spokeswoman said on Thursday. Border controls were first introduced on 4 January to reduce the number of migrants entering the country.

Central European countries say they have "nothing to hide" on rule of law issues - while justice commissioner Vera Jourova said they should agree to the Commission's controversial budget plans on rule of law conditionality.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says the EU-US data sharing pact known as Privacy Shield will play an increasingly minor role given the general data protection regulation.